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Progress of the thesis

Doctoral degree

Professional experience: Doctoral students are full-fledged employees with rights and responsibilities. During the three years of their thesis, they are required to carry out their research project with rigour, initiative, creativity and intellectual openness.
They must also take into account the practices of work organisation and evaluation in the professional context of the public and private sectors.
 
Completion of a scientific and personal project: The school ensures that doctoral students develop their own autonomy in the environment provided by their thesis supervisor and team. This involves participating in the writing of the project, defending it before the competition or admission jury, and making an annual presentation to the monitoring committee on the scientific progress of the project and the choices made in terms of its direction. The objective of the doctoral student and their team is also to publish and disseminate the work in progress during the thesis, an essential stage of the research activity.

Doctoral School

The doctoral school manages the educational aspects of your thesis (educational registration, supervisory committee, training, mobility, defence for educational aspects only, supervision, etc.). You must comply with the internal regulations available on the doctoral school's website. 
 
Two meetings are mandatory during your thesis: 
_ the D1 start-of-year meeting: this usually takes place in December. If you are enrolled before this meeting, you must attend it in D1. If you are enrolled after this meeting, you must attend it in D2.
_ the defence meeting in D3 and above to explain the rules of the defence

The registration office

You are enrolled at an institution that will handle the administrative aspects of your thesis (administrative enrolment, certificate of enrolment, defence for the administrative part). You must comply with your institution's internal regulations.
 
Four enrolment institutions:
_ Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University: UCBL
_ Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon: ENS
_ National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon: INSA
_ VetAgroSup
 
Mandatory meetings may be held by these institutions. 
 
As a student, you have access to all the benefits: e.g. for UCBL , for ENS , for INSA , for VetagroSup
 

The employer - the funder

The employer is the person who employs you and pays your salary. Their name is written at the top of your employment contract. 
The funder is the person who finances the project. They may be the employer, or they may transfer the money to a third party (the employer) to pay you.

The laboratory and its supervisory bodies

You are welcomed into a laboratory. You must comply with its internal regulations.
You must contact the administrative manager to obtain access to your laboratory (i.e. to all human resources management applications - SIHAM for UCBL, RESEDA for CNRS, etc.) and access to all resources provided by the supervisory bodies (IT, libraries, training, missions, intranet, orders, room reservations, staff restaurant, etc.).

Complementary teaching activities (ACE) / Teaching

It is possible to teach during your PhD.
 
_ Institutions organise an ACE campaign every year. PhD students with an ACE contract or addendum must provide 64 hours of teaching assistance per year.
If you have obtained such a contract, please return it to the secretariat once it has been signed by all parties (secretariat.e2m2@univ-lyon1.fr).
 
_ If you wish to give a few classes, you must ask your employer for authorisation to combine activities (check with your laboratory).

Joint supervision

In the case of joint supervision, you will have an additional co-supervisor in the other country. 
 
All documents related to joint supervision must be sent to the following contact (no signatures will be sent directly by email).
 
Contacts
_ for UCBL: Gisèle BARBIER  - procedure
_ for ENS: procedure 
_ for INSA: procedure 
 
No assistance for mobility between co-supervising institutions will be provided by the doctoral school.

Mobility during the thesis

When travelling outside your laboratory (company for CIFRE students), you must have a travel authorisation (check with the laboratory manager).
If you are travelling to another laboratory, you must complete a hosting agreement (check with the laboratory manager). 
 
The doctoral school can fund stays as part of the ‘mobility’ offer.
The institutions where you are enrolled may also fund travel (e.g. UCBL; ask the doctoral programme administrators for other institutions where you are enrolled). 

Health, safety, social worker

Medical care:
_ As a student at an institution, you can consult the institution's student doctor.
_ As a doctoral student, you have access to occupational health services provided by your laboratory and/or company (for CIFRE students).
 
Safety: 
_ In your laboratory or company, you should contact the safety officer. 
 
Social worker:
_ As a student at an institution, you can contact the social worker for students at the institution.
_ As a doctoral student, you have access to the social worker at your laboratory and/or company (for CIFRE students).

Equality and diversity

The doctoral school promotes equality among individuals and opposes all forms of discrimination.
For further information, please refer to this UCBL web page. 

Useful contacts

Your main point of contact is your thesis supervisor.
If you encounter any difficulties, you can contact:
_ the secretariat: secretariat.e2m2@univ-lyon1.fr
_ your tutor (see the CSI tab)
_ the management team of your laboratory
_ the management team of your department
_ the management team of your company (in the case of CIFRE)